Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Mercury now shines at magnitude 0 in Gemini and is visible in the western sky for about an hour and a half after sunset. The ...

The clarity of Lake Tahoe — the famed alpine lake on California’s border with Nevada, whose spectacular scenery draws ...

NASA released a nicely produced documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope called "Cosmic Dawn: the Untold Story of the ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a sun-scorched, metal-rich world with a puzzling magnetic field and lavas ...

If you want to make diet choices that help the planet, the most common and effective advice is to eat fewer animals and more plants. But there are so many other choices we make that impact our ...

Because HD 100453 has a higher mass than the sun, it has a warmer, planet-forming disk around it. This causes molecules in the disk, including methanol, to exist as gas at larger distances from ...

Venus gleams in the eastern sky before sunrise, reaching greatest elongation early in the month. Saturn, meanwhile, rises in the post-midnight hours and slowly brightens. Jupiter is the only major ...